I'm not much of a diesel fan (tin boxes with motors) but I did take a fancy to Union Pacifics GE U50, too bad that format was not carried into the future, seems things went downhill from that point on, a feeling I get is that many diesel fans are not enamoured with the U50, for whatever reason. My question is: are there any U50's preserved anywhere? I'm probably sure there are none in running order if there were.
Anyone out there with info on these beauties??
All of the giant double diesel freight giants from the 1960's and early 1970's were scrapped except for the 13 surviving Centennials.
No Alco or GE examples exist anymore and all of EMD's pioneering DD35 and DD35A's went to scrap circa 1980. The U50's on the Union Pacific were gone by 1975 (Southern Pacific's lasted slightly longer) and the nearly new U50C's went into storage, never to return, during that time as well before being disposed of around 1980. The three Century 855's were retired and scrapped in the early 1970's.
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